It matches up real nice with a rod in the 9-10 foot range, and there is no smoother casting conventional.
Mine's sitting on a custom Loomis 9-footer right now. I think the blank number was SW 108-20. Loomis doesn't sell blanks any longer, and I haven't checked their factory rods lately to see if they have 9' conventionals. I've also had it on a Sabre IGSC 1088. Another blank that's no longer made, but the Batson Rainshadow SW 1088 is a very close alternative. Then there's the Lamiglas 9' blanks in their surf and live bait series, or the factory rods built on them. But if I wanted a rod strictly for eels, to match with a Calcutta, given what's available at present, I'd choose to have one built on a Lamiglas GSB 120 1L with 6" to a foot taken off the butt end
